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  2. Lanthanide contraction - Wikipedia

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    The lanthanide contraction is the greater-than-expected decrease in atomic radii and ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series, from left to right. It is caused by the poor shielding effect of nuclear charge by the 4f electrons along with the expected periodic trend of increasing electronegativity and nuclear charge on moving from left to right.

  3. Lanthanide - Wikipedia

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    All of the lanthanides form Ln 2 Q 3 (Q= S, Se, Te). [18] The sesquisulfides can be produced by reaction of the elements or (with the exception of Eu 2 S 3) sulfidizing the oxide (Ln 2 O 3) with H 2 S. [18] The sesquisulfides, Ln 2 S 3 generally lose sulfur when heated and can form a range of compositions between Ln 2 S 3 and Ln 3 S 4.

  4. Molar ionization energies of the elements - Wikipedia

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    This is the energy per mole necessary to remove electrons from gaseous atoms or atomic ions. The first molar ionization energy applies to the neutral atoms. The second, third, etc., molar ionization energy applies to the further removal of an electron from a singly, doubly, etc., charged ion.

  5. Rare-earth element - Wikipedia

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    The principal sources of rare-earth elements are the minerals bastnäsite (RCO 3 F, where R is a mixture of rare-earth elements), monazite (XPO 4, where X is a mixture of rare-earth elements and sometimes thorium), and loparite ((Ce,Na,Ca)(Ti,Nb)O 3), and the lateritic ion-adsorption clays.

  6. Michelson–Morley experiment - Wikipedia

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    A first step to explaining the Michelson and Morley experiment's null result was found in the FitzGerald–Lorentz contraction hypothesis, now simply called length contraction or Lorentz contraction, first proposed by George FitzGerald (1889) in a letter to same journal that published the Michelson-Morley paper, as "almost the only hypothesis ...

  7. Attenuation coefficient - Wikipedia

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    The attenuation coefficient of a volume, denoted μ, is defined as [6] =, where Φ e is the radiant flux;; z is the path length of the beam.; Note that for an attenuation coefficient which does not vary with z, this equation is solved along a line from =0 to as:

  8. Cardiac excitation-contraction coupling - Wikipedia

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    A molecule, called adenosine triphosphate (ATP) which is produced by an intracellular structure called a mitochondrion, is then used, as a source of energy, to help move the myosin head, carrying the actin. As a result, the actin slides across the myosin filament shortening the muscle. This is called a power stroke.

  9. Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory - Wikipedia

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    In 1953, Brillouin derived a general equation [10] stating that the changing of an information bit value requires at least kT ln(2) energy. This is the same energy as the work Leo Szilard 's engine produces in the idealistic case, which in turn equals the same quantity found by Landauer .